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When it came time to arrange her housing situation at Columbia University in New York, Katie Chang — who co-starred with Emma Watson in 2013’s “The Bling Ring” and co-starred with Sir Ben Kingsley in the upcoming “A Birder’s Guide To Everything” — opted to search for a roommate online rather than get paired off at random. “I used a website that’s like eHarmony for roommates,” said Chang, a freshman at Columbia, over the phone from her home in Winnetka, where she is spending her spring break. “I wanted someone who I could explain the acting thing to beforehand.” The acting thing took off when Chang was cast in...

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